BOOK XXXII

  There is no joy for the earth that lies for a long time without agriculture.

ZARATHUSTRA


  You do not know the work of God that does all things.

ECCLESIASTES



VIRE NE TUE THE COLOURS

1 The defects and insufficiencies of the Book must be imputed to our excremental weakness and indigence, which belong to the miry nothingness. 1' The qualities and the beauties of the work must be attributed to our substantial light and to our essential inspiration, which belong to God.

2 Likewise, our temporal individuality should not be an obstacle to anyone, either repelling him or attracting him. 2' For it is only the word of God and his salvation that finally matter, and they alone must be the object of all our thoughts and all our concerns here below.

3 Have we not stepped aside so as not to cast a shadow over God's light?
And have we not worked gratuitously?
3' In poverty, in solitude and in the reprobation of the world, for the community of our human brothers?

4 Are our masters not the living ones of eternity? 4' And is our master not the Lord of eternal life?

5 The ardent desire for God's salvation magnetizes the Lord of heaven into our hearts. 5' Shall we not also do in the world that which we accomplish in our hearts?

6 That which we do by ourselves is illusory and dead. 6' That which we do with God is real and living.

7 The comments of the holy and wise Scriptures are images of the image of the thing, but certainly not the thing itself. 7' Therefore, what certain scholars write of the narratives of the inspired word is quite illusory and is far removed from God's truth.

8 The exterior curiosity of the profane is the most effective barrier that maintains them in ignorance of the secret of the revealed word. 8' Thus, it is the malice of our outer eye that maintains us in the exterior darkness, and it is the purity of our inner eye that brings us close to the light of God.

9 Ignorance is proving through words the non-existence of God's salvation. 9' Wisdom consists in proving its real nature through facts.

10 Many write and speak of God's salvation. 10' Very few truly act and feel it.

11 Who truly wrote the Book? 11' And who truly reads it?

12 The same one. 12' The same one.

13 HIM[1]

[1] in French LVI See dedication on the Home page of this site:
13' HIM[1]

[1] HIM: the secret fire that gives rise to universes, that maintains them and that consumes them

14 Many leave their religion and go to the death from which there is no return. 14' A few penetrate all religions and go to the life that does not perish.
"The outside." "The inside."

15 Profane life is life separated from God. 15' Holy life is life linked to God.

15" Wise life is life restored in God.

16 Let us not forget that the Book was written despite the blind hostility of the world, and that all kinds of discouragement, all kinds of reprimand and all kinds of opposition have been showered upon us... 16' daily, with a continuity and a tenacity that are the mark of the rebellious spirit bent on repelling the heaven that witnessed its birth and from which it has stupidly exiled itself.

17 There is certainly a divine justice, and those who have fought the Book shall never penetrate it, and no good testimony and no help shall come to them from it on the day of judgement. 17' It shall be like a stone that will weigh on their back and that will keep them bent towards the dead earth that they have extolled so much about and that will prevent them from seeing the heaven that they will have despised so much. They shall swallow their regrets with the rottenness in which they will have revelled.

18 Religion is like the wrapping of God's secret. 18' In it, the light of life. Outside it, the darkness of death.

19 Religion is like the bridge that links us to God's salvation. 19' Does one go to sleep on a bridge or settle on it?

20 We shall cross the bridge to reach the holy city of the Lord of life, of love and of peace. 20' Or we shall leave it and go and settle in the hostile jungle. Thus, in any case, we shall not obstruct the precious passage.

21 Profane life invades the world on the pretext of freedom, but in reality it leads us to the most atrocious slavery there could be. 21' Slavery of the life of beasts and of spiritual death. These shall be burned in the end like useless brambles, and they shall serve as fertilizer for the new world.

22 Woman has become profane since she put sin into herself and since she passed it on to man. 22' None of God's secrets must therefore be entrusted to her, so as not to expose humanity to an even greater fall.

23 Man, who fell because of woman, shall raise her up again and, after purifying her, shall bring her back to God. 23' Therefore, authority, command and decision currently belong to man, so that all is restored to the primary state.

24 A sign of the end of time shall be the renewed disobedience, emancipation and rebelliousness of woman with regard to God's word and to man who is its guardian. 24' The dissolution shall be accomplished through fire, to the great surprise of the world, and it shall thus be radical and definitive; and the coagulation shall be accomplished by fire and water united in the unity of the One.

25 God's salvation shall come at the end of time, for many who are reserved. 25' God's deliverance comes at all times, for a few who are chosen.

26 If we join the lowest with the highest through the intermediary of the most middle, we shall obtain the origin and the end of all that has been, all that is and all that shall be. 26' Thus, we are silent in naming, we veil in showing and we rest in acting, and this can annoy only the profane ones driven by the spirit of hate, of violence and of darkness.

27 SAINTLY and SAGE SCIENCE. 27' SACRED and SECRET SALT.

27" SOLELY SUN and SELENE.

28 The conceited profane explain to us and dissect for us the holy Scriptures, the rites and the symbols, like those scholarly doctors who explain and dissect a cold corpse. 28' One and all are totally incapable of discovering life in its dark wrapping, and they are even far more incapable of fixing it in its secret core.

29 One day, God shall judge the world that has become incurable and shall consume with fire the stench of its malignant wound. 29' He shall gather together the remains and he shall knead them with the water of heaven, in order to make with them a new creation that is sweetsmelling and without blemish.

30 Communal prayer brings material goods, and gifts to the community maintain them. 30' Solitary prayer leads to spiritual goods, and private gifts confirm them.

31 One makes grace flow. 31' The other makes love blaze.

32 The Churches still believe in the Lord descended among us, but they no longer know him, they no longer see him, they no longer touch him and they no longer eat him except in image. 32' Their loyalty, their faith, their hope and their love are miraculous, and deserve the great reward of eternal life promised by the Lord to those who shall have believed in him until the end.

33 Oh, handsome Lord of compassion and love, shall you not manifest yourself to your beloved children before the darkness of the end? Shall you not hold out to them a helping and reassuring hand? 33' Shall you not allow one of your chosen sons to manifest your holy pardon that removes the sin of death, that gives health to the dying, faith to the nonbelievers and life to the dead?

34 Oh, handsome Lord of mercy, shall you not give us once more the deposit of your salvation, so that we are comforted in your holy love before the collapse of the end that is coming? 34' Shall you not allow one of your delivered sons to manifest your holy light of life that illuminates spirits and that saves souls and bodies? Shall you not manifest a small flash of your omnipotence for the benefit of your decimated children?

35 Those who revel in the baseness of this fallen world are enraged to see certain beings working to escape from it, and all their wickedness is applied to upsetting them, to discouraging them and to diverting them from their salvation and from their deliverance. 35' It is up to those who hope for God's salvation, or who seek his deliverance, to flee from the professed or hidden hostility of the ignorant profane that surround them and suffocate them stupidly.

36 Not only do the profane ones reject God's revelation, they even persecute those who study it. 36' Is there any worse curse than to reject the promise of life and to oppose the quest for life?

37 The mediocre are like beasts worried only about food and drink, but who ignore him who prepares it and who gives it. 37' No other quality could replace the love of God, the faith in his salvation and the quest for his deliverance.

38 Those who oppose our hope of God's salvation or our quest for his secret of life are not our brothers, nor our sisters, nor our husbands, nor our wives, nor our children, nor our parents, nor our friends, nor our allies. 38' Those are like beasts that wallow in the dung of the world and that mean to hold us back with them in the slavery of death, rather than coming with us towards the freedom of life.

39 Shall we save them and shall we save ourselves by remaining with them, by living their blind life and by adopting their profane thoughts, even though it may be out of charity or out of love for them? 39' Would we not do better to flee from them and follow the handsome Lord of life and truth, as he rightly advised us? They shall be free to follow us when their eyes open to the vanity of the perishable world.

40 The profane deny God's salvation and blindly reject his deliverance. 40' For they believe they save themselves through their work and they think they can break into God's secret through their science.

40" These are signs that we must note well.

41 To look for the world and to serve the Lord is impossible. 41' To serve the world and to seek the Lord is even more impossible.

42 Some attain here below the spiritual enlightenment of the Lord of life, and we call them blessed. 42' But where are those who attain corporeal knowledge of the unique Splendour? And what shall we call them?

43 The most intelligent and the most advanced in the study and knowledge of the mysteries of God penetrate only spiritual realization. 43' It is the return to the free, moving and unconditioned state in God. They are God's delivered.

44 Some of these obtain the knowledge of divine science and go beyond spiritual realization to penetrate substantial realization. 44' It is the access to the free, fixed and manifested state in God. They are God's resurrected.

45 If we wish to have access to the knowledge and the possession of God's revelation, we shall carefully spit out the instruction of the profane world and we shall protect our children from it. 45' Religious schools and initiatory schools must not restrict their teaching to spiritual research; they must keep the ultimate rung, which is the substantial quest forgotten by all.

46 The difficulties, the pitfalls and the miseries of the world are also there for the believer, but it is he who survives and is made firmer in his faith, while the temptations of the world fade away more and more. 46' Has the Lord's Providence not always nourished and saved us at the last moment? And has his love not always inspired us and fulfilled us beyond our wildest hopes?

47 We shall be tempted, purified, passed through the crucible and put to the test in all forms, but we shall not be forgotten, abandoned nor rejected. 47' For the Lord is a good gardener who prunes, waters, enlightens and fertilizes us according to his ART that is perfect.

48 The impious one weakens in the end and succumbs in the darkness of doubt and despair. 48' The believer becomes firmer and firmer in his faith, which enlightens him and protects him.

49 Even if we do not understand what we are doing, let us not omit to always thank the Lord for all that comes to us and for all that leaves us. 49' Let us praise the Lord in the congregations for the material goods he sends us, and let us praise him in secret for the spiritual goods he gives us.

49" Let us bless the Unique One for the most secret gift of life that unites the low and the high in the humility and in the splendour of the Living One who saves from death.

50 We must obey the voice of the Lord that guides us towards salvation, and we must accept the blows that move us away from the quagmire of death. 50' For we walk with a sack over our head and a stone on our back, and we are deaf and blind to God's truth.

51 We shall listen in the congregations to the comments and the explanations of the holy Scriptures that will comfort us in our wait or that will help us in our quest. 51' And we shall study the holy Scriptures in the solitude of our room and in the secret of our heart, so that the light of the Perfect One manifests itself in us.

52 We shall frequent the Lord in the congregations, first to receive, then to give. 52' Likewise, we shall frequent the Lord in the secret of our hearts, first to offer and then to receive.

52" But we shall never omit to praise him, in public and in private, for his holy and perfect incarnation.

  All has been given to him. To his kingdom belong integrity and immortality. He gives to this world power and strength.

ZARATHUSTRA


  Only God knows the mysteries, he unveils them to no-one, unless he concedes this favour to the most cherished of his envoys, for whom he provides the company of a procession of angels.

KORAN